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Mastercard pilots digital payments to garment workers

Mastercard is teaming up with global apparel companies, Marks and Spencer, Levi Strauss and Co., and VF Corporation, to pilot a scheme to pay garment workers digitally, to ensure that workers receive their wages “securely and consistently”. The new hybrid digital payment initiative, in connection with global nonprofit Business for Social...

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Levi’s names chief strategy and artificial intelligence officer

Global denim brand Levi Strauss and Co. has appointed Katia Walsh as senior vice president and chief strategy and artificial intelligence officer, to help the company translate and utilise data analytics to drive business value and competitive advantage. Walsh, a former Vodafone executive, will join Levi’s on April 29, where she will be...

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Levi’s announces management changes to accelerate growth

Global denim brand Levi Strauss and Co., has announced a number of management changes to “streamline decision-making” and consolidate accountability for core business growth drivers, as it looks to accelerate direct-to-consumer growth. These changes include creating a consolidated product, innovation and supply chain organisation, a new...

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Levi’s sets ambitious new climate action strategy

Denim apparel giant Levi’s has announced a set of ambitious targets to reduce carbon emissions across its owned-and-operated facilities and global supply chain by 2025 in a new climate action strategy. What it is calling “aggressive targets” in a press statement, the climate action strategy is aimed at slashing the environmental impact of the...

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Levi's names 10 entrepreneurs to fellowship initiative

London - Levi Strauss and Co has named 10 entrepreneurs to Collaboratory, its annual fellowship programme for “socially and environmentally conscious entrepreneurs” who are looking to create a more sustainable apparel industry. More than 100 applicants from ten countries applied to take part in the first-of-its-kind fellowship programme, and the...